Categories: animals

• Some Females Too Sexy for Own Good, Fly Study Says

  Too much sex can be a bad thing. “Sexy” female fruit flies get so much attention—and toxic semen—that they have trouble finding food and their birthrates fall, a new study says.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Sharks Killed for Oil Used in Swine Flu Vaccine

  Millions of doses of the H1N1/09 vaccine contain a substance called squalene, which is extracted from the livers of rare deep-sea sharks caught in the wild, conservationists say.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Early Whale Was Dwarf Mud-Sucker, Fossils Hint

  Unearthed in southeastern Australia, the tiny, ancient whale likely captured its prey by slurping up mouthfuls of mud from the seafloor, scientists say.